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Stevie Dicks performs at Rainbow Alliance’s 20th annual “Panther Drag” show at the O’Hara Student Center on Saturday night.

Rainbow Alliance celebrates ‘all things queer’ with annual drag show

By Kiera Ledermann, Senior Staff Writer March 27, 2022
Despite a broken elevator, Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance managed to host an all-inclusive “grand finale” to its 2022 Pride Week, the annual spring “celebration of all things queer.”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pittsburgh’s two main Pride celebrations have been pushed back until the fall.

Pittsburgh pride celebrations moved to fall

By Maggie Young, Contributing Editor May 19, 2020
According to a May 8 press release from the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh, the organization that’s hosted Pittsburgh Pride since 2008, the Foundation plans to hold the event on an undetermined fall date. Another local Pride event hosted by SisTers PGH, “People’s Pride PGH 2020 - Breaking the Cistem,” has also been postponed.
The Honors College hosted Vanessa Carter of SisTers PGH at one of its biweekly Community Cafes on Thursday. SisTers PGH focuses on helping trans women in the county jail by providing bail, resources and jobs for trans people.

SisTers PGH leader: County jail needs new policies for trans inmates

By Jade Chang, Staff Writer October 31, 2019
Vanessa Carter, the vice president of SisTers PGH, spoke about trans rights and prison at Pitt's Honors College Thursday.
SisTers PGH, a shelter focused on transition programs for trans and nonbinary people, hosted People’s Pride as a way to shift attention to marginalized groups within the LGBTQ+ community. (Photo by Jon Kunitsky | Staff Photographer)

People’s Pride passes on corporate sponsorships, focuses on inclusion

By Jon Kunitsky | Staff Writer June 12, 2018

“Pride of the people will overcome evil!” This was only one of many rally cries heard from the marchers in Pittsburgh’s second annual People’s Pride March late Sunday morning. The “people”...

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